New Features in the Prior Notice System Interface (PNSI)
Version 1.6.00
Release Date July 9, 2005
Version 1.6.00 of the Prior Notice System Interface (PNSI) includes the following new features:
"Water, Other" Mode of Transportation
The "Water, Other" Mode of Transportation has been created to allow imports via personal watercraft navigating across US boundary waters which do not issue valid Bill of Lading numbers. The information required for this Mode of Transportation is similar to the "Water, Vessel (Non-Container)" except that the Bill of Lading number is optional. This mode can be selected from the Mode of Transportation on the Web Entry and Web Entry: Carrier pages. It is available for the Consumption, Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), Immediate Transportation (IT), Informal, Temporary Import Under Bond (TIB), Transportation and Exportation (T&E), and Warehouse entry types.
"Transportation and Exportation (T&E) -- Express Courier" Entry Type
The Transportation and Exportation (T&E) -- Express Courier entry type has been added to accommodate T&E shipments sent via Express Courier. Similar to the Consumption -- Express Courier entry type, the user may enter a Tracking Number or an Airway Bill for Air Modes of Transportation entries and a Tracking Number or a Bill of Lading for Land Modes of Transportation entries. With this new entry type, Ultimate Consignee facility information is optional and PNSI allows for foreign Ultimate Consignees.
Quantity and Packaging Wizard and Calculations
The Quantity and Packaging Wizard and Calculations functionality was modified to only allow data entry to no greater precision than 3 places to the right of the decimal point. For accurate calculation, the Total Calculated amount must be greater than .001 and less than 999,999,999.999.
Browser Support
Mozilla Firefox is now a supported browser for accessing PNSI.
Holding Facility
- If Holding Facility information must be provided for all Prior Notices for a Web Entry submitted via PNSI, you can now apply the information entered for one Prior Notice to all Prior Notices within the Web Entry. Indicate that the Holding Facility applies to all Prior Notice Articles for the Web Entry by checking the "Should this Holding Facility be applied to all Articles for this Web Entry?" checkbox on the Prior Notice: Holding Facility (Enter) page when entering Holding Facility information for one of the Prior Notice Articles. The information will be applied to all Prior Notice Articles within the Web Entry that have not been cancelled and do not have a Holding Facility.
- The Holding Facility process was modified to include a verification step with a message to inform the user that holding facility information cannot be modified after submission.
- The Submit Holding Facility link on the Prior Notice: Submitted page will now only be displayed if the associated Web Entry has been completed.
Web Entry Summary Confirmation Page
This release effort implemented two corrections to the data field labels on the Web Entry Summary Confirmation Page for Mail Entry Types. The Envelope Number is now correctly identified in the Web Entry section of the page and the Prior Notice Confirmation number is listed next for each Prior Notice Article.
PNSI Login
To access PNSI, users must log in through the FDA Industry Systems page. Bookmarks or Favorites that link directly to the PNSI Welcome page will return an error message directing the user to the FDA Industry Systems page.
PNSI Help Text
PNSI has enhanced the PNSI Help to include Helpful Tips for Submitting Prior Notice. This section of the Help documentation contains valuable timesaving advice for PNSI users.
Usability Enhancements
- Canada, Mexico and the United States are now the first 3 countries listed in the drop-down list of countries for the Privately-Owned Vehicle License Country field on the Carrier page. All other countries are listed in the drop-down in alphabetical order following the United States. The Privately-Owned Vehicle License Country field is listed on the Carrier page for the following Modes of Transportation:
- Land, Automobile
- Land, Other
- Land, Truck
- Land, Truck Container
- The Find Product Code Wizard functionality has been improved to remove extra spaces from the user's input that may have been entered before or after the search string. Prior to this change, the search would return an error if the user entered blank spaces before or after the text.
- The images included in the Quantity and Packaging Wizard have been modified to be more intuitive, to better aid users when calculating the Total Quantity of goods being shipped into the US using the Wizard.
- Throughout the application, PNSI provides helpful links to sites within the FDA network. Prior to this release, PNSI provided a link to the Industry Guidance for Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) Codes Flagged with Prior Notice Indicators. With this release, this link has been redirected to go directly to the list of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) Codes Flagged with Prior Notice Indicators.
- The Carrier page has been modified to make it easier to enter and view multiple Rail Car Numbers and Container Numbers for Web Entries where the selected Mode of Transportation is either Rail or Rail Container. The size of the fields has been increased to hold up to 1000 characters. Rail Car Numbers and Container Numbers may range from 1 to 20 characters and must be separated by commas when entered into the field.
- Error Message have been clarified and corrected for:
- Invalid anticipated arrival date range as search criteria on the Find Web Entries page.
- Invalid use of special characters throughout PNSI
- Required Full Address on the Manufacturer page
- Invalid system time-out messages.